We have ourselves a rather expensive Mac Pegasus R6 external thunderbolt raid and a CentOS box that we would love to use it.
On a Mac it's plug and play, however on our CentOS box it's not recognized ...

I have an external hard disk that all of a sudden gives an error when Linux Mint attempts to auto mount the thing when it is plugged in. For some reason I see two "External Drive" (the drive's name) ...

What I'm trying to Accomplish:
I would like to install Arch linux on an encrypted (lvm on luks) external USB hard drive and have it boot and run with the widest array of machines possible and before I ...

An external storage device can be connected to different Linux or Unix machines, and I guess its mounting point may be different?
If yes, will symlinks that are stored on the device and link to files ...

I'm using an external HDD which is my old laptop's HD with 2.5 SATA enclosure. I tried to delete a partition in Windows and stopped it unknowingly. When I reinsert it, my OS including Ubuntu freezes ...

How do I format LUKS encrypted disk if I don't know the passphrase?
I recently switched my HDD for a new SSD disk in my laptop and now when I connect the old HDD externally I can't mount disk event ...

I have a one Terabyte hard disk drive (USB3) that suddenly will not mount. My local computer expert (Windows only) had a look at it with his software and said that it is not a hardware problem.
What ...

One of WD external harddrives is not working when I try to access some folder. I am able to access the rest of the folders on the disk. I am getting Input/Output error as show in the attached Image.
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I have a WD My Passport 1 TB external hard drive which is giving me some problems on different linux machines:
When I plug it in, nothing happens
Gparted when detecting connected devices says "Error ...

I have a 2 TB external HDD which I connect to the Ubuntu 8.10 system. However, after connecting the external HDD, I created just a single partition and because of that I could use only 750 GB out of ...

I have an external HDD. It's portable, so I plug it in all over the place. Needless to say, these different places have different passwd files and uids. The files are mine and I need to access them ...

I have an external USB 3 disk drive (2TB capacity) that is most likely going to be moved from machine to machine. The disk has a GUID partition table and an ext4 partition. I am unable to write to the ...

I have an e-sata external enclosure with a port expander and 4 sata disks in it that I use for periodic backups. I have what I think is a sound method for powering it off, but not sure if it is the ...

I'm currently in the business of recovering data from a damaged---and dying---hard-drive (check this question for background info). The damaged hard-drive is 250GB, and I intend to use dd or ddrescue ...

On the back of How to repair a corrupted HFS+ partition?, I have separate question. I'd like to run smartctl tests on a hard disk, but I'm not sure which option I should use to correctly initialize ...

I have a portable hard drive which I mount on /mnt/ext. Normally it works fine. But if I leave it mounted with no activity for sufficiently long, it can cause my system to completely hang. This has ...

I'm using rsync to copy data between my internal and external hard drives. It's done what I need, but I'm running out of room on my internal hard drive. So, is there any way to get rsync to function ...

I'm running Crunchbang Linux (a variant of Debian)
Whenever I plug in a drive, it gets mounted to /media/username/UUID-or-Name. Is there a way to instead mount it to /media/UUID-or-Name?
Crunchbang ...

One of the users on our Ubuntu server has given us an external hard drive as a means of increasing the amount of storage space for their account.
They'd like us to auto-mount this external hard drive ...

My intention is to spin-down an external USB drive after 20 minutes of not being used. In the normal case I would use hdparm for this but unfortunately this doesn't work on my external USB drive. It ...

I want to multi boot Linux (Fedora 19) with my two machines which use Windows 7 and 8. The Windows7 is a desktop, and the laptop is a Windows 8 machine.
I used my desktop to install Fedora 19 on the ...

I have one Western Digital External HDD(2TB) connected to Redhat Server with the Partition type Ext3. But I noticed that it goes to 'sleep' mode if no one is accessing it. So if I try to access it, ...

Note: This situation is evolving. Please see the output at the end of this question for the current situation.
I'm using Linux Mint 14. Recently, I repartitioned one of my hard drives, and I backed ...

I have an external drive formatted in ext4 that throws this error message when is plugged in EXT4-fs (sdd2): error count: 8 initial error at 1366215273 last error at 1366215527,it generally works just ...

In Windows, there's an option to "safely remove hardware".
Ignoring the fact that it almost always fails, and that most of the time I simply have to plug the device out, I get the initiative behind ...

I've bought a new hard disk, a Seagate (Backup Plus), but I'm having problems with it.
Firstly, it doesn't mounts every time I plug it in. In such cases, I've got to restart the machine to work with ...

When I plug in a flash drive or hard drive to my local server (running debian squeeze) the machine doesn't seem to be mounting the devices in /media/usb*. Is there an step that I am missing? I trued ...